White Rabbit

This is a book illustration about Hunter S.Thompson’s novel: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The image references a scene whereDr. Thompson’s attorney asks him to electrocute him in a bathtub using a radio playing Jefferson Airplane’s White Rabbit. “White Rabbit” was nominated for The Association of Illustrators’ Images 32 Exhibition: The Best of British Contemporary Illustration.

How To Climb A Tree

An editorial illustration about Guy Browning’s article How to climb a tree, from his humorous How To... column in The Guardian. I focused on idea that you should start by selecting a tree big enough that it could, in the words of the author: “accommodate Robin Hood and at least five Merry Men.”

Q

Published in the Guardian as part of John Tusa’s The ABC of the Arts, this image accompanied the section titled Q is for Quantification:

“Q is for Quantification. You might call it measurement. Some of it is easy and second nature. How many seats do you sell? What do you charge? What do you earn from commercial activities? But arts organisations are challenged to justify themselves on more rigorous grounds. Can you measure how good your art is? Why can't you measure the difference it makes to people's lives? It's a nonsense question but that doesn't stop the mini-men from asking it.”

Brexit

I did this illustration about the lies the Nationalists sold to the British public prior to the Brexit vote.

Dante's Inferno

These illustrations are part of a series about "Inferno", the poem by Dante Alighieri. "Inferno" tells a story of Dante’s journey through the circles of Hell, guided by the great Roman poet Virgil.

Canto XIX takes place in the 8th circle of Hell. The Simonists are buried upside down in holes, their feet are set on fire.

Canto VI takes place in the third circle of Hell, the circle for Gluttons. Their spirits are left in a foul swamp to be mauled by Cerberus as they are lashed by icy rain.

Saturn

This image was created for the Sunnyside Artists' #glimmerofhope juried show. It is based on the absurd idea that humans could move to Saturn after the effects of global warming render the Earth uninhabitable.

Leeds Is...Hot

An editorial illustration for The Leeds Guide, the article was titled "Leeds Is…Hot", from their regular "Leeds Is…" column. The Leeds Guide was a monthly “What’s on” magazine.

Falling Cats

This is an editorial illustration about the article Who needs nine lives?, from one of the Last Word column in New Scientist published in 2003. It references a joke about creating a perpetual motion machine by fixing a slice of buttered toast to a cat’s back.

C Diff

This was a self-initiated editorial illustration, based on an article about overuse of antibiotics can allow gut bacteria called Clostridium Difficile to deplete a patient’s immune system, leaving them more vulnerable to future infections.

Control

A spot illustration about how the fate of the many can be dictated by the will of the few.

Easter

This was a personal project to create an illustration that uses Easter imagery.

Thoughts

This image is about fleeting thoughts and memories loss.

Twin Peaks

These images, entitled "The Black Lodge", "Leo No!", and "Shadow Self" represent scenes from the television series "Twin Peaks." In this project, I was predominantly focused on the mythical Black Lodge. Wyndham Earl, a character on Twin Peaks, describes the Black Lodge: "A place of almost unimaginable power, chock full of dark forces and vicious secrets."

Destruction

This is a personal illustration about the word "Destruction", contemplating impermanence and time.

Consumption

A magazine cover for Redefine Magazine’s Consumption issue, exploring how a person’s freedom is tied to their personal wealth, and their ability to consume.

Survive

This illustration was for the Association Of Illustrators’ Survive Exhibition. I characterized an illustrator as a cacti, a survivor in a desert landscape where opportunities are scarce.

The Bones from the Well

This illustration is about the Connecticut Valley Dinosaur Tracks, among the first known discoveries of dinosaur tracks in North America. The illustration is a combination of two stories about how tracks were discovered in the valley. In the first, dinosaur tracks were named by a local doctor as “The Tracks of Noah’s Raven” from the biblical story of Noah. The second, is about “The Bones from the Well” where the dinosaur bones were discovered when a well was being built.

The Lambton Worm

This is an illustration about the legend of The Lambton Worm, based in County Durham, England. In the story, John Lambton has to defeat a giant worm (often described as a dragon or snake) that has been terrorizing the local villages. At the time, I’d been looking at Terry Gilliam’s Monty Python animations, and I wanted this image to have a similar aesthetic.

Sausage Dogs

This self-initiated illustration about sausage dogs re-imagines the dog as if it is literally made of sausages.

Steampunk

This was a personal project where I wanted to capture the Steampunk aesthetic. I blended science fiction with vintage 19th-century imagery.

Listen Closer

These illustrations are from a short story I wrote called “Listen Closer,” about a rabbit’s journey through a forest, and the woodland creatures it encounters, and which plays with environmental themes and deforestation.

Super Mario

These are a series of prints I made about the 1989 video game Super Mario Land. I recreated a handful of the characters in my own collage style, based on their original black and white pixel form.

Breakfast

I made an illustrated avatar of myself, inspired by Magritte and the surrealists.

Concealment

This is a book illustration about H. G. Well’s The Invisible Man. The Invisible Man’s unravelling bandages represent the unravelling of his state of mind as the novel progresses.

The Red Shark

This is a book illustration about Hunter S. Thompson’s novel: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Spring

This spot illustration is taken from my short story called “Look Closer”. The story is separated into four chapters: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter—with a spot illustration like this at the start of each chapter.

Myxomatosis

This was an unpublished editorial illustration for BBC History Magazine. The article was about Myxomatosis being introduced in the UK to control the population of rabbits.

Rock, Paper

This was a self-initiated project to create an illustration for reproduction as a postcard and print, this was for sale at the Sunnyside artists’ Queen Of Angels Fine Art Fair. It is based on the idea of peace triumphing over war.

Nineteen-Eighty-Four

This is a website banner illustration about George Orwell’s novel: Nineteen-Eighty-Four.

Slaughterhouse-Five

This is a website banner illustration about Kurt Vonnegut's novel: Slaughterhouse-Five.